Ground system design Col John Keesee 6/17/2004 Lesson objective The student will Be able to list the functions performed by a space systems ground support system 2. Know factors in ground station design 3. Know components of ground station
Satellite communications Architecture Identify Requirements Specify architectures Determine link data rates Design Size each link Document your rationale
Overview Spacecraft data processing requires microcomputers and interfaces that are functionally similar to desktop systems However, space systems require: - Low power, volume, and mass High reliability and fault tolerance
Background OF TECHN Why is Software Engineering Hard? “Curse of flexibility \And they looked upon the software and saw that it was good. But they just had to add one other feature ... No physical constraints
Optimization of Separated Spacecraft Interferometer Trajectories in the Absence of A Gravity-Well Edmund M Kong Prof david w, miller MIT Space Systems Laboratory 20th March 1998 Space Systems Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
23 F.E. and B.E. Meshing Algorithms 23.1 General 23.1.1 Finite Element Method(FEM) 23.1.2Mesh 23. 1.3 Some Criteria for a Good Meshin 23. 1.4 Finite Element Analysis in a CAD Environment
Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA Copyright 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Contents 8 Fitting, Fairing and Generalized Cylinders 8. 1 Least Squares Method of Curve Fitting 8.2 Fairing of Curves and Surfaces 8.2.1 Properties and Definition
